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Originally Posted by DaleDe
'Twas is difficult but 'ell is fairly easy since it is reasonable to think that any word after a ' would begin with a capital letter. At least in the majority of cases.
Dale
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Sorry, I don't agree. Very often dialogue can continue after a short break. For example: 'Listen,' she said, 'to the music playing'.
In this case it seems easy enough, as it is a comma, space, quote, lowercase. But, in this case the quote is usually correct so it should be ignored. There are many more examples that can be given.
IF there are clear rules, we can automate it. A majority of cases doesn't cut it, you would be better of with manual correction then. If you know up front that the book you are working on has several of these occurrences, you could mark them beforehand and repair them. So, in you example, mark 'ell like <>ell (for my add-in procedure) and at the end of the procedure it will automatically have the correct quote. It would be fairly easy to conjure such a list and execute it just before the quote fixes.